"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises." - Psalm 57:7
Our problems in life are in general of two kinds. The first kind is circumstantial, arising from the turn of events. This may be met and overcome by prayer. The other kind is more personal, the suffering of being hurt or humiliated by others. For such affronts and misunderstandings prayer does not seem to avail. I myself had prayed, and I know. It is futile to wrestle with such problems and to strive in prayer about them. I want to suggest that you should turn instead to praise.
You should bow your head and say to the Lord, 'Lord, I thank you. I receive this bad treatment as from Your hands and I praise you for it all.' By so doing you will find that everything is transcended. What the Lord has permitted to come to you cannot be wrong. Everything that He does is perfect. As you thus praise God, your spirit rises victorious over your problems and God Himself takes care of your hurt feelings.
The Joyful Heart (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)
Read the Scriptures: Psalm 57
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
Be Not Ashamed
"Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord." - 2 Timothy 1:8
Why should we be ashamed of confessing ourselves to be Christians? When the Lord Jesus was hanged on the cross, He bore our shame as well as our sins. The Bible clearly teaches us that He was put to shame. He was humiliated by the soldiers in the Praetorium and disgraced by them at Calvary. If we suffer disgrace from men, that is our rightful portion; no indignity that we receive today can compare with the shame which our Lord endured on the cross.
Let it, then, be no surprise to us to suffer shame, for this is the portion of all who belong to the Lord. It is really the world which should be ashamed. A poet has exclaimed, 'Can a flower be ashamed of the sun?' Impossible! As a flower opens gratefully for all to see its response to the sunlight, so will we openly confess before men the Lord who has done so much for us.
A Table In the Wilderness (by Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)
Read the Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1
Why should we be ashamed of confessing ourselves to be Christians? When the Lord Jesus was hanged on the cross, He bore our shame as well as our sins. The Bible clearly teaches us that He was put to shame. He was humiliated by the soldiers in the Praetorium and disgraced by them at Calvary. If we suffer disgrace from men, that is our rightful portion; no indignity that we receive today can compare with the shame which our Lord endured on the cross.
Let it, then, be no surprise to us to suffer shame, for this is the portion of all who belong to the Lord. It is really the world which should be ashamed. A poet has exclaimed, 'Can a flower be ashamed of the sun?' Impossible! As a flower opens gratefully for all to see its response to the sunlight, so will we openly confess before men the Lord who has done so much for us.
A Table In the Wilderness (by Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)
Read the Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1
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